Unit 1 Greeting and Introducing People

Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears Session 1 Section I Talking Face to Face Section II Being All Ears

Section I Talking Face to Face

Lead-in Warm-up 1. When are business cards exchanged between people? 2. What are usually written on business cards? 3. When do people use passports?

Lead-in Read and translate the business cards and passport in Section I.

Sample dialogues Warm-up How much do you know about the way Americans greet people and give responses?

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings at the first meeting: Fine/Very well, thank you. And you? How are you? How do you do. How do you do? Nice to meet you, too. Nice to meet you. Pleased/Glad to meet you, too. Pleased/Glad to see you.

greeting people and giving responses Hello! I’m a new student here. Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Hello! I’m a new student here. Welcome to our school.

greeting people and giving responses Hi! Haven’t we met before? Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Hi! Haven’t we met before? No, I don’t think so.

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings when meeting again Responses Hello. How are things with you? Quite well. And you? How is everything? Not too bad. How are you doing? What are you doing (up to) these days? Very well/Fine /Good, thank you. Nothing particular.

greeting people and giving responses Speak out — greeting people and giving responses Greetings when meeting again Responses Haven’t seen you for ages. How are you? Fine/Very well/OK, thank you. Fancy seeing you here, Lily! Yeah, fancy that. Nice to have you with us, Ann. Please make yourself at home. Thank you, I will.

Sample dialogues Warm-up 2. How much do you know about the way Americans exchange personal information?

exchanging personal information Speak out — exchanging personal information I’m Mike Smith. Please call me _____. I’m a freshman /first year student at this college. My _____ is computer science. Mike major . Please ___ me or _____ me if you need any help. call e-mail

exchanging personal information Here is my _____________. Speak out — exchanging personal information Here is my _____________. (business) card This is my _________. Thank you. Here is _____. name card mine

Sample dialogues Warm-up 3. How much do you know about the way Americans say good-bye?

Speak out — saying good-bye 祝你愉快。 保重。 再见。 我不得不走了。 见到你很高兴。

Speak out — saying good-bye Pleased/Glad to have met you. Have a nice day. Take care. So long. Bye. I must be off now. Pleased/Glad to have met you. See you later.

Speak out — saying good-bye _______________, I’ve got to run. Speaking of time

Sample dialogues Warm-up 4. How much do you know about the way Americans introduce themselves?

Speak out — self-introduction Sample sentences A. Mr. Ballman, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Li Tiegang, manager of the company. B. I’m Robert Miller from Canada. C. Before we start (First of all), let me introduce myself. D. Hello, may I introduce myself?

Speak out — self-introduction Sample sentences E. I’d like to introduce myself first. F. Could you please introduce me to your manager?

Read and find out useful expressions for Sample dialogues Read and find out useful expressions for greeting people. Read and find out

used at the first meeting: Sentences used at the first meeting: 1. Hello, nice to meet you. 2. How do you do, Professor Lu? 3. Welcome to our department, Dick. 4. Nice to meet you, Mr. Green. to our company.

used when meeting again: Sentences used when meeting again: 1. Hi, long time no see, Dick. Do you remember me? 2. So glad/pleased to see you again. How are you? 3. How is your project going? 4. Hello, Jack. Haven’t seen you for ages. How’s everything going?

used when meeting again: Sentences used when meeting again: 5. What a nice surprise! 6. What brings you here? 7. How are things going in your company? Not bad. 8. How about you? Just doing fine/OK.

Practice the following sentences. present the project report 1. Let’s ________ Professor Smith who will give us a report on the development of computer science. welcome 2. The team leader (project manager) was given only 10 minutes to _______________________ at the meeting. present the project report 3. Are you here just for pleasure or ___________? on business

Sentences for introducing people and giving responses: 1. My name is Lu Yang. 2. I’m Richard Washington. Please call me Richard. 3. Here is my card. 4. I’m Jack Green from Zhonghua Technical School. 5. Here is my business card. 6. Here is mine.

Practice the following sentences. 1. Ladies and gentlemen, now let me _________ to you the renowned football star David Beckham. 2. Businessmen often exchange _____________ to each other when they meet for the first time. introduce business cards

Practice the following sentences. 3. Would you _______ a cup of coffee with me? 4. Our American English teacher told us to ____ her by her first name instead of her family name. care for call

Practice the dialogues. Sample dialogues Practice the dialogues. Group work

Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues. Sample dialogues Make short conversations by simulating the five small dialogues. Pair work

Sample dialogues Role play Role play the similar situations you create, first in groups, and then in front of the class. Role play

Do the Put-in-use exercises Sample dialogues Put-in-Use Do the Put-in-use exercises in groups by reading out loudly the three dialogues you have completed.

Section II Being All Ears

Read the printed materials Dialogue Pre-listening task Read the printed materials in Listen and Decode in ONE minute.

Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book. Dialogue While-listening task Listen to the tape WITHOUT looking at the book.

Dialogue While-listening task Listen to the tape one sentence after another, taking notes during the pause.

Dialogue While-listening task Repeat the sentences after the tape.

Dialogue script Lin: Hi! Are you new here? John: Yes. I’m an overseas student. This is my first year here.   Lin: My name is Lin, a third-year student.   John: How do you do, Lin? I’m John Thomson from England.  

Dialogue script Lin: How do you do? It’s a great pleasure to meet you, John. I’ll go to England to further my study for a master’s degree.   John: I’m here for my Chinese program. Perhaps we could help each other. Lin: Yeah, John. If you need any help, feel free to tell me.  

Dialogue script John: Really? Thank you. Lin: Are you online? John: Yes, I am.   Lin: My e-mail address is lin@campus.com.   John: Mine is john@England.net. Let’s keep in touch.   Lin: OK. Bye for now, John.   John: Bye-bye, Lin. It’s nice to have met you.

Dialogue Post-listening task Do the exercises in Listen and Decode and Listen and Respond.

Read the printed materials Passage Pre-listening task Read the printed materials in Listen and Read in THREE minutes.

Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks. Passage While-listening task Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks.

Listen again and check up the answers. Passage While-listening task Listen again and check up the answers.

Passage Key to the passage: 1. Introductions 2. others 3. United States 4. Nowadays 5. politely and clearly 6. Software Park 7. Roger Smith 8. run

Passage Now, read the passage LOUDLY!

and Listen and Conclude. Passage Post-listening task Do the exercises in Listen and Match and Listen and Conclude.

Assignments 1. Pair work: Make up dialogues for greeting and introducing people referring to the dialogues in the Workbook. 2. Preview Passage I and the exercises.